Spending $23,000/year on food, including regular jaunts to New York restaurants.

$10,000/year for "stuff that comes up".

Let's also note that the reporter ignores The deductiblity of:

Charitable donations.

Mortgage interest

Child care

Which would lower their tax burden by something on the order of $40K/year.

Also, their biggest expense, the mortgage would likely be half that if we stopped letting mobsters and corrupt politicians launder their money through real estate deals, which inflates real estate prices.

Still, even after all that fiscal incompetence, this fictional family has $140 a week mad money.

*We need to have sympathy for this family, because they are fictitious, a condition effecting thousands of families around the world.††Please give generously to the Fictitious Family Relief Fund. They are funding research on making the sufferers of this condition real.‡‡At this point, they can only exist in virtual reality.